1. Choosing a care Provider
Types of Care
o Child Care Centers
o Family Child Care
o In-home Caregivers
o Care Provided by Relatives, Friends and
Neighbors

2. Child Care Centers
• Parents choose centers
because they believe that
larger groups, multiple
caregivers and state
inspections make programs
safer for their children and
make the arrangement
more dependable.

3. Child Care Centers
• Many parents believe
that more staff, space,
equipment, toys
and organized activities
provide a better
learning environment
for their children.

4. Family Child Care
• Family child care providers
offer care for children in the
provider's home.
• Most states require family
child care providers to have a
criminal records check and/or
child abuse and neglect
clearance.

5. Why Do Parents
Choose Family
Child Care
Providers?

6. Why Do Parents Choose
Family Child Care Providers?
• They want to keep their
children in a home-like
environment.
• They prefer to relate to a
single caregiver and believe
that children are healthier,
happier and more secure in
smaller groups.

7. In-home Caregivers
• In-home caregivers
provide care for
children in the child's
home.
• They include live-in and
live-out nannies and
housekeepers.

8. Why Do Parents Choose In-
home Caregivers?
• Parents choose in-home care
because they believe their
children will be safer and
more secure in their own
home.
• They believe that if they
employ the caregiver to work
in their home, they have more
control over the care their
children will receive.

9. Care Provided by
Relatives, Friends
and Neighbors
• This type of care is often called
"Kith and Kin" care and can take
place in the caregiver's home or
in the child's home.
• Sometimes parents arrange to
work different shifts, so that one
parent is always available to care
for the children.

10. Why Do Parents Choose
Care by Relatives, Friends
and Neighbors?
• Parents who use this kind of care
consider themselves lucky to have a
relative, friend or neighbor care for
their children.
• They believe that these caregivers
will provide warmer, more loving
care for the child and that the child
will be more secure.

11. • Many parents believe that
relatives, friends and
neighbors will be more likely
to share their values and they
feel more comfortable
entrusting their children to
them.
• Sometimes parents use this
type of care because their
schedules, budgets or
transportation issues limit
their other child care options.

12. Choo
Child Care (Advantages) (Disadvantages)
Centers
Choosing In-home (Advantages)
(Disadvantages)
a Care Caregivers
Provider
Family Child (Advantages) (Disadvantages)
Care
Care Provided by (Advantages) (Disadvantages)
Relatives,
Friends and
Neighbors